September 2007 - Xymon - Xymon mailman web

Plans for BBWin support?
by peter.smith＠utsouthwestern.edu 28 Nov '07

28 Nov '07

Any plans for hobbit to support the "bbwin" client? It obviously currently doesn't support it, at least not in the "central" mode. P

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[hobbit] on-going snapshot issue
by david.gore＠verizonbusiness.com 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

Since my other issues with 4.2.0/allinone did not get any respones, please let me know if there is going to be a way to turn OFF descriptions in bb2.html in the snapshot? Time is short and it is very tedious to compile a new snapshot daily hoping it is changed. I did look through the documentation, the first time it appeared, and I couldn't find anything Again here is what it looks like: Host1 (My host type:This host is a standalone server for the xyz group) conn cpu disk files info memory msgs oradb orasys procs prtdiag trends vxvm Host2 conn cpu disk files info memory ... trends Host3 conn cpu disk files info memory ... trends Host4 (Part of the cluster foo, contact support for help 123-5555) conn cpu disk files info memory msgs oradb orasys procs ... trends We use our descriptions in the info column and they are needed, so I cannot just remove all descriptions and comments from bb-hosts. Any help would be appreciated. Do people like the descriptions on bb2.html or is just my config that has done this with the snapshot? If it wasn't for 'Whoops ! bb failed to send message - timeout', stale alerts, and hung memory segments and semaphores I would just wait until the first pre-release or full release. Pease help. Dell Optiplex Fedora Core 5 Dual Core 3.2 GHz 4G memory David Gore (v965-3670) Network Management Systems (NMS) IMPACT Transport Team Lead - SCSA, SCNA Page: 1-800-PAG-eMCI pin 1406090 Vnet: 965-3676

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How can see I group alerts setting under info column ?
by tj_yang＠hotmail.com 30 Oct '07

30 Oct '07

>From R1, I was able to configure the GROUP alerts on disk partition. Also the testing using " bin/hobbitd_alert --debug --test ..." is also working. The only problem is that I can't see the disk partitions alerts recipient shown under "info" column. Thus no easy way to show disk partition owners by just looking at "info" column of that machine. Am I doing something wrong ? or this is the current limitation of 4.2.0 ? R1: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Hobbit/Other_Docs/FAQ#Q… T.J. Yang _________________________________________________________________ Invite your mail contacts to join your friends list with Windows Live Spaces. It's easy! http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=create&wx_url=/friends.aspx…

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/etc/resolv.conf and DNS error (http test)
by Dominique.Frise＠unil.ch 05 Oct '07

05 Oct '07

Hi, We have tried following settings in the Hobbit server's /etc/resolv.conf (Solaris 9) domain example.com nameserver 1.2.3.4 nameserver 1.2.3.5 options timeout:1 options retry:1 While the first and second nameserver are up and running we receive sometimes "DNS error" on http checks like http://www.example.com. Assuming that the first nameserver is not responding within the timeout, the second should be queried by the Hobbit resolver and get the response. Is there something that we are missing? Dominique UNIL - University of Lausanne

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NooB questions - Status not Available
by pmcilrath＠marketron.com 05 Oct '07

05 Oct '07

Hi, Im a NooB to Hobbit. I have some Big Brother background which is why I chose Hobbit for a new monitoring project at my company. Im running CentOS 5, and I installed Apache 2, and rrdtool-1.0.50-3.el5.rf.i386.rpm and Hobbit from hobbit-4.1.2p1-1e14.re.i386. The installations all went smoothly, no error messages, I put some hosts in my bb-hosts file and fired up hobbitd. The main page comes up, but when I click on any of the tests icons, instead of getting the current status for that hosts tests, I get a blank page with "Status not Available". However, if I click on "all Non-Green view" from the view menus and look at the tests historically they are all there and can be viewed normally. I checked the files for the hosts in the hist, hislogs and logs directories and they are growing and receiving data from the clients. A ps -ef | grep hobbitd seems to indicate that hobbitd is up and running. I suspect its a permissions thing, but the structure of Hobbit is different enough from BB Im not sure where to look. I am also seeing a couple of odd behaviors in reports that makes me suspect that as well. If I try to run a snapshot report I get a blank page with "Cannot create output directory", and the config report says it cannot contact the Hobbit server. If this is the wrong place for this post, please let me know and I will go where I should. And if anyone has a little patience to help a NooB along for awhile, I will promise to do my time helping other NooBs along when the shoe is on the other foor and support this forum. Paul pmcilrath at marketron.com </PRE>The information contained in this e-mail message may be confidential and protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying is strictly prohibited. If you think that you have received this e-mail message in error, please e-mail the sender at exadmins at marketron.com

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Hobbit in Debian
by myon＠debian.org 01 Oct '07

01 Oct '07

Hi, so weeks ago I started looking into hobbit since one of my company's customers is using it. Of course the fact that it wasn't included in Debian so far was nagging me, so I took the packages from sf.net, used Henrik's debian/ dir as base for mine, and uploaded the packages. http://packages.qa.debian.org/h/hobbit.html Of course there's probably bugs in the packaging, so comments would be very welcome. The original packaging was already very usable, so many thanks for the great work. There's also a hobbit-plugins package, but so far it only contains 2 plugins (an "apt" check, and a related check for upgraded libs still linked to running processes). http://packages.qa.debian.org/h/hobbit-plugins.html

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Client for NetApp storage and Weblogic Server
by fduranti＠q8.it 01 Oct '07

01 Oct '07

Hi all, I'm currently developing 3 perl client to use with Network appliance Storage, Weblogic Servers and Database (SQL/Oracle/Informix and Mysql). At this moment only the weblogic and netapp scripts are available, the database check for Oracle/Informix and with connection check to sqlserver will be probably available the next week. I uploaded the scripts to deadcat but i got some problems downloading them so I've also created a project on sourceforge and I'm uploading the scripts there (and I will also try to create a mailing list so that if users have the need to contact me they can do that there). The homepage on sourceforge is http://sourceforge.net/projects/hobbit-perl-cl/ <BLOCKED::http://sourceforge.net/projects/hobbit-perl-cl/> Thanks and sorry for the advertise but this seems the better place to let users know about hobbit clients available :D Regards Francesco Duranti

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New Monitors Added
by gjohnson＠trantor.org 30 Sep '07

30 Sep '07

New monitors recently added to The Shire: * boinc - http://www.trantor.org/theshire/doku.php/monitors:boinc * bbswap - http://www.trantor.org/theshire/doku.php/monitors:bbswap --- The Shire

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Did a bb "rename" but still finding some old host data
by jonescr＠cisco.com 28 Sep '07

28 Sep '07

I recently used the bb "rename" command to rename a host that had switched usernames. Everything worked as expected, all of the trending data shows up under the new hostname. However, I can run "find" in the data directory, and under data/hostdata/ I still see the old hostname directory, with 40MB of data files in it. Also, there is no directory for the newly renamed host. The files appear to be the full client output data. Did the files not get properly moved? Should I now manually rename that directory, or are they linked to it and I should leave it alone? -Charles

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Weird Alerting behavior...bug or expected??
by etmsys＠rit.edu 28 Sep '07

28 Sep '07

We have the following the the Alerts file: # on-call page $TSSSYS_ONCALL_DAY=SCRIPT /home/hobbit/server/ext/qpage.pl tss_sys_oncall COLOR=red REPEAT=10 TIME=W:0800:1700 RECOVERED $TSSSYS_ONCALL_OFF=SCRIPT /home/hobbit/server/ext/qpage.pl tss_sys_oncall COLOR=red REPEAT=20 TIME=W:1700:0800 RECOVERED $TSSSYS_ONCALL_END=SCRIPT /home/hobbit/server/ext/qpage.pl tss_sys_oncall COLOR=red REPEAT=20 TIME=06:*:* RECOVERED $DUPING=%(mxgate) HOST=$DUPING SERVICE=conn $TSSSYS_ONCALL_DAY $TSSSYS_ONCALL_OFF $TSSSYS_ONCALL_END We had a host (mxgate03) go down at 3:15am, it sent 1 initial page, but no follow ups. No repeats. Does Monday from 12am-8am fall in a "limbo" timeframe where the 2nd rule does not apply since it's not a Weekday after 5pm, but before 8am??? The host was down for over 3 hours without any follow up pages. Do I need a rule similar to: $TSSSYS_ONCALL_MON=SCRIPT /home/hobbit/server/ext/qpage.pl tss_sys_oncall COLOR=red REPEAT=10 TIME=1:0000:0800 RECOVERED The different rules are suppose to repeat 10 minute during business hours, and 20 minutes off-hours. Any ideas? Is this a bug or expected behavior? Thanks. ---Eric

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